Description. Educators interested in developing
interactive, web-based learning materials have an exciting and powerful
tool in Adobe’s Flash Professional programming environment. Many
websites use Flash applets to facilitate multimedia effects and user interactions.
However, most books on Flash development are not written with educational
applications in mind. This workshop will provide carefully prepared, face-to-face
training for educators in the form of demonstrations, computer lab sessions,
and supervised projects. Each participant will learn how to manage basic
user interactions such as text input and output, mouse clicks, and dragging
objects on the screen, and these interactions will be presented in the
context of examples focused on calculus and discrete mathematics instruction.

In addition, we invite individuals with previous Flash experience to participate with a focus of studying advanced topics, building general tools for the mathematics community, and creating a "best practices" document for applet development.

Each participant
will develop a learning object for an area of mathematics in which they
have special interest, and these projects will be shared at the end of the
week as both presentations and additional resources for all of the other
participants. Workshop fees provide room and board on the campus ofShippensburg University, and each participant (if eligible for Adobe's Educational Discount program) will receive a free copy
of Flash Professional so that development can continue after
the workshop is over.